John 15:18 (NIV) If the world hates you, remember they hated me first.

So at first sight the church finds pride in this statement. I have heard many Christian ministers say, “The world hates us because we are followers of Christ.” And Jesus did say it, but do they hate us like they hated Christ.

We need to first understand why they hated Christ.

19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

They hated Jesus because he was not like the world. He was a shining light in the midst of darkness. If we were like him then they would hate us for that reason. They would see the truth of the gospel and the spirit would convict them. Their hatred would stem from the conviction that was why they hated Christ. I don’t believe that is why they hate us.

They hate us not because we are like Christ, but because we are like the world. They hate that we indulge in the same sins, but then turn and pretend that we have it all together. They hate that we stand for something in the daylight, but when the lights are out we scurry around like cockroaches covered in stench and filth.

The world hates that we speak out of both sides of our mouths. We are double minded. We say we believe in God, but still seek after the things of the world. We truly have nothing to stand for, but we pretend to stand for everything.

In James 1:6-8 NLT is says:

6But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.

They hate us because we are fake. Jesus was genuine in everything he did. We too need to be genuine. Does that mean to be perfect? No. It simply means real. The Christians that reach the world are those who fail at life. The stumble and they fall, but they are honest about it. They do not attempt to hide it in the shadows and sugar coat the consequences.

The world needs to see that we are human. We are in the world, but because of the amazing Grace of Christ we are not of the world.

Stop glorying in the hate the world has against you. Instead start being the shining love that Christ created you to be.

This message is a call to all Christians. to everyone who voted for a new President and has wanted a change for our nation.

We felt like the vote was over and that was that. If they would have voted Clinton in the conservatives would have taken the news and moved on. Maybe a few radicals would have demonstrated and made idol threats, but it would end there.

However, I believe that America is right where Obama wanted it to be. You see the more that racial tensions were brought into the election the greater an army that the President had. now the dice have been thrown and the gamble lost so Obama can easily take his Ace out of his pocket and declare martial law all because of the civil unrest that he procreated.

On Alan Colmes radio cast, Dr. Ben Carson told Colmes that Obama could very easily declare martial law if the unrest of the nation got worse and turned into Anarchy. At that time Dr Carson was just looking at running for the presidency. He believed that the nation may not have an election if the unrest continued.

But we did have an election, and someone other than Clinton won.

I wondered for months why it appeared that Obama was not only supporting the protesters but actually applauding them. I wondered why he was actively making the civil unrest worse. Now I fear we may see.

While he begs the nation to take this transition in peace, to wipe his hands clean of any blood, he is possibly already drafting an Executive Order for martial law.

This is a call for all Christians to join together and pray, storm the heavenly gates for our nation. I fear we have not seen the worse of it yet.

So we all know that media shows what they want us to see. Many times we only see part of the big picture and it makes it look much worse than it actually is. Take a look at the attached picture. How does it make you feel? What is going on? Did the offender get what he deserved? Who is to blame?

Obviously, you know that I am going to prove your initial response as inaccurate. In the picture it is blatantly obvious that the fan was being prayed with pepper spray from the security guard who was supposed to be reacting non-violently. The guard did not have a weapon and he was acting with the proper authority.

However, the fan looks as if he is engulfed in flames. He looks as if a flamethrower is being used to burn him to death. That is what the media who posted this picture wants us to think. They want us to believe that the viscous guard was out to kill this Soccer (Football) fan.

However that is not what happened at all. The fans brought flares into the arena. This fan had climbed up in an unauthorized area and would not get down. He was endangering himself and the other fans, as well as the staff and player.

The guards went in to get him down and sprayed him with pepper spray. It is unknown if the guard realized that the aerosol spray would react with the flare. (If I was the guard, I would never have thought about. Like the time I sprayed bug spray too close to a camp fire.)

In the video below you will see that the flame flared up for a split second, the guard stopped spraying, and the fan dropped the flare and ran off. The fan may have left with a little bit of singed hair and smoky clothes. He was probably more damaged by the pepper spray in his nose mouth and eye, than the brief inferno.

Don’t believe everything you see in the media, the media can spin everything the way they want you to see it. It makes you wonder what else they are lying about.

Daily Wire
BY: AARON BANDLER JULY 7, 2016
The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. But the statistics – brought to light by the superb work of Heather MacDonald – tell a different story.

Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or “were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force,” according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College.

Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 12 percent of the population. But as MacDonald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.

“Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force,” writes MacDonald.

MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks “commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime” in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city’s population.

“The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black,” MacDonald said. “Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods.”

2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.

“If we’re going to have a ‘Lives Matter’ anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named “White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'” said MacDonald in her Hillsdale speech.

3. The Post’s data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man…but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But MacDonald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:

The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.

In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat. That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed black victim” of police fire.

MacDonald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George’s County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer’s holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually “jumped the officer” and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was “fearing for his life.” MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where “three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them.”

4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.

5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.

Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the “Ferguson Effect,” as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.

Protest from Fullerton, CA in the death of the white homeless schizophrenic who was beaten to death by a group of cops.

Why is it that so many people feel they are above the law. There are Criminals that feel that they should not be bothered by the police and resist and end up having force used on them. We have kids in school everyday that feel they can do what they want to in class or at school and when they get in trouble their parents sue the school system. There are mothers who kill their unborn babies while baby daddies sit at home selling dope and mooching off of welfare. Consequences mean nothing anymore.

How have we gotten to a point that criminals feel they have the right to do what they do? When they are caught and force is used because they refuse to submit, people demand retribution.

Why do we have children refusing to work in school, but the parents blame the teachers? They go after the school system and the teacher loses his or her job to alleviate pressure from the state.

Why do people think they can party and have sex with everyone? When they have to deal with the consequences they have it removed by the cheapest Dr. who sees a fully developed child to be nothing more than a lump of raw meat.

Why do people think they are above the law? Oh, wait we can’t even hold our leaders accountable for their actions. We have a president that rewrites the constitution. Congress that will not uphold the rights of the people. A court that will not uphold the laws. And then there are people in line of leadership that are not held accountable to their own actions. No wonder people feel they are above the law.

We are in a very dark place in history. More and more senseless killings are happening. Making matters worse, the ones that are supposed to protect us are the ones being targeted.

There is a large group of people that believe that there is a a war going on by the police against the African American people. Sadly, there are many senseless killings of African Americans by police officers. There are also many African American police officers.

The vast majority of the deaths at the hand of the police have been people who were breaking the law, who attempted to get away and resisted and endangered the lives of others, leaving force as the only option. There are individuals from all races that have died doing this, but everyone is looking strictly at the African American population.

The vast majority of the African Americans who were arrested were not killed. They did not refuse. There are many who still look only at the few that have died and ignored that many people that call the cops everyday and are helps and supported by the police officers.

It is not the police that are being racist, but the people promoting this problem that are against the police. Now 12 officers were gunned down by sniper fire in Dallas. Five of the victims are now dead.

This has gone far enough. We should realize that all lives matter. Police should not being gunned down in the name of vigilante righteousness. At the same time it is important that police officers exhaust all non-lethal attempts to seize a person as possible. Whether the person is red, yellow, black, white, green, or purple, everyone deserves the right for due process and people should not have to fear the police.

At the same time, people should realize that the police do have a job to do. They should not feel that they are above the law, but rather realize if they did wrong that they have to deal with the consequence of their actions.

Finally, others should not be ignorant just because the politicians and media are making this into a race war. There are people from all races and ethnic backgrounds that have died at the hands of officers. In most all cases the person left the officers with no other choice than to use force.